Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

[Karl Auer <kauer () biplane com au>]

On Sat, 2020-01-25 at 22:29 -0600, Aaron Gould wrote:
> From: Ben Cannon [mailto:ben () 6by7 net] 
> I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line.   And 9600 baud
> modems…   

Pah! Luxury!

When *I* were a lad we had to touch the wires with our tongues to tell
one from zero, no job for a sissy lemme tell you. And don't talk to me
about bandwidth. You could increase it easily enough by wiring up other
body parts, but it was hard to keep the staff.

My ancestors - well, up was light and down was dark, that's all *they*
knew, swimmin' around in the primordial seas. The phrase "next
generation technology" *meant* something back then.

You tell that to young folk these days and they don't believe you...

-K.

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